Who's Who, Who's New In Principals

School update

The dominoes began to fall in July when Fred Colvard resigned as personnel director for the Lake County School District.

Colvard left to become superintendent of a school district in Jefferson County, W. Va., near where he previously lived.

Lake schools Superintendent Tom Sanders decided to hire from within the district.

Jim Polk, principal at Leesburg High last year, will replace Colvard in the district office. Polk worked at Leesburg High the past dozen years as an administrator, teacher and dean.

For a new Leesburg principal, Sanders turned to David Tucker, who last year was principal at Tavares High. Seven years ago, he was assistant principal at Leesburg High before leaving to become principal at an elementary school and then Tavares High.

Taking the helm at Tavares High this year is Mickey Marks, who last year was principal at Umatilla Middle School. Marks has worked for the Lake County school system 22 years, including four years as assistant principal at Tavares High. He also was principal at Treadway Elementary in Leesburg and Groveland Middle School. He was at Umatilla Middle the past five years.

Marks' move left a principal vacancy at Umatilla Middle.

To fill that post, Mike Carpenter, assistant principal last year at Tavares Middle School, was named principal of Umatilla Middle. Carpenter had been at Tavares Middle School for six years and was assistant principal at Umatilla High School for two years.

Susan Moxley, who last year was assistant principal at Triangle Elementary School in Mount Dora, was tapped as the new principal for Seminole Springs Elementary. She replaces Jack Currie, now principal of a private Catholic school in Kissimmee.